List of installed slackware packages

hogda02 · 08-22-2006, 02:04 PM

Does anyone know a simple command or process to get a list of all the currently installed packages in Slackware?

In Redhat, it's rpm -a or something like that...anything like that for slackware?

raska · 08-22-2006, 02:05 PM

Code:

ls -l /var/log/packages | less

Daga · 08-22-2006, 02:15 PM

Does it need to be command-line? There are a couple graphical tools also that show you the package size. I've written a utility called Dufie that can do this and is available at: http://daga.dyndns.org/projects/dufie/ </shameless plug>

(Hint: it looks through /var/log/packages and reads the installed size

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raska · 08-22-2006, 02:42 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Daga

Does it need to be command-line?

well, the OP asked for "a simple command or process".
Maybe he/she doesn't have the X server installed (like I do with my server machines).

Anyway, you can also "manage" the packages in slackware through the pkgtool (command line too) or with KPackage (on KDE)

sunman · 08-22-2006, 02:43 PM

I use the ls method myself because it's just quicker

but pkgtool will also show you a list of installed packages.

Daga · 08-22-2006, 03:11 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by raska

well, the OP asked for "a simple command or process".
Maybe he/she doesn't have the X server installed (like I do with my server machines).

Anyway, you can also "manage" the packages in slackware through the pkgtool (command line too) or with KPackage (on KDE)

*slaps self* Well, "ls|less" is probably the smallest necessary to scroll the package names. Most of the time the package log size isn't terribly important.